Definitions
This is defined as a chronic, relapsing disorder characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use despite negative consequences.
What is drug addiction?
People freely chose to keep using drugs despite negative consequences.
False - Brain imaging studies of people with addiction show physical changes in the areas of the brain that are crucial to judgement, decision-making, behavior control, and memory.
This is the most commonly used psychotropic drug in the United States, after alcohol.
Marijuana
This is an unpleasant sensation of the skin that provokes the urge to scratch, and is often associated with Opiate use
What is puritis?
Methadone was used during WWII as a pain reliever
True - Methadone was first synthesized in 1939 at the pharmaceutical laboratories of the I.G. Farbenkonzern, a subsidiary of the Farbwerke Hoechst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was the product of a long and continuous research chain in the area of synthetic antipyretics and analgesics that had already been initiated in the early 1880s
This class of drugs include prescription painkillers like oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine, morphine, and fentanyl – and the illegal drug heroin.
What are Opiates
This substance is a synthetic analgesic drug that is similar to morphine in its effects but longer acting, used as a substitute drug in the treatment of morphine and heroin addiction.
What is Methadone
Relapse is part of the recovery process.
True - Relapse can often times be part if recovery.
These are conditions or attributes (skills, strengths, resources, supports or coping strategies) in individuals, families, communities or the larger society that help people deal more effectively with stressful events and mitigate or eliminate risk in families and communities
What are Protective Factors
Oxygen is the cure for an overdose
True - When someone overdoses, the biggest danger is a lack of oxygen. Rescue breathing gives the overdose victim the oxygen they need.
This is the connection formed by axons that project from neurons to make synapses onto neurons in another location, to enable a signal to be sent from one region of the nervous system to another
What is Neural Pathway
The brain and kidneys are the primary organs affected by drug use.
False - While drug use affects every area of the body the brain, heart, and lungs are the primary organs affected.